Delaware Democratic Senate candidate Chris Coons would like nothing more than for Christine O’Donnell to become the latest tea party sensation to shock the establishment.

But the New Castle County executive is also aiming to manage expectations if O’Donnell can’t summon Joe Miller-like momentum in her Sept. 14 challenge to Rep. Mike Castle, making the case that the two Republicans have plenty of similarities that should trouble middle-class voters in a state that’s increasingly leaning Democratic.

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“Whoever wins the primary, they are both real Republicans and they are both going to pursue the same economic policies ... whether that’s tax breaks for the wealthy or deregulation. Either one would vote for Mitch McConnell as majority leader,” Coons told POLITICO Wednesday.

August polls have shown Coons losing to Castle but beating O’Donnell by 7 to 10 points. The Democratic nominee would not say which candidate he would prefer to battle this fall but acknowledged he was grateful not to have a primary and suggested Castle’s path to victory against the former television commentator may be more difficult than he initially realized.

“I think there’s good reason for the congressman’s campaign to be concerned because as I go up and down the state, I hear a strong message that people want change. Folks are eager for new members of Congress. I think incumbents ... are facing tough questions,” he said. “Delaware’s a small state and the turnout in the primary is likely to be low, and I think the general mood is eager for change.”

While ignoring O’Donnell’s bid for most of the summer, Republicans have amped up their attacks on her over the past week.

Just as the Tea Party Express pledged to pony up $600,000 for radio and television advertisements on behalf of the insurgent, the Republican National Committee swooped in to aid Castle’s get-out-the-vote efforts. Also this week, the Castle campaign launched an attack website called RealChristine.com.

“Christine O’Donnell: Hopelessly irresponsible with her own finances,” the text reads over a black-and-white picture of O’Donnell, her lips compressed and wearing a nervous expression.

The News Journal reported that a state GOP aide got into a scuffle with an O’Donnell supporter after a candidate forum on Monday — an incident that state party Chairman Tom Ross called “sickening and unbelievable.”

Ross has ratcheted up his rhetoric against O’Donnell recently, telling POLITICO she’s not a viable candidate for any office in the state of Delaware because of her personal financial problems.

O’Donnell, in turn, has argued that Castle is out of step with not only Delaware Republicans but most voters, for casting votes in support of the bailout and cap-and-trade legislation.

But Coons, who is pinning his general election hopes on painting Castle as out of touch on bread-and-butter issues, said “there’s more similarities than disagreement” between the GOP contenders.

“Someone who has voted with Republican leadership 87 percent in the last two years, I think, is more than Republican enough,” said Coons, referring to the nine-term congressman.

O’Donnell’s campaign did not respond to a request for comment.

CORRECTION: Because of a technical error, the original version of this report was not posted in its entirety.

Christine O'Donnell is not an establishment scumbag. Nuff said. Send her money, for your own good. Castle os a special interest scumbag. Castle sells you lke you were a whore, to the special interests.

The RICH don't create jobs. They create SLAVERY. The RICH rob the people of needed resources. They steal food from starving children. They deny health care to the sick and infirm...and they do all this in the warped name of PROFITS.

Lincoln understood that LABOR was pre-eminent to, and superceded "capital". Capital would not exist without labor.

The REPUKES reverse this to impute that LABOR is dependent on Capital.

It is the stinking, worthless CAPITALIST that takes from civilization . TAKES and does not contribute. These are the THIEVES of creation. What the guillotine was invented for !

As for Christine O'Donnell....it is just more evidence that there is NO REPUBLICAN party. It has been taken over by the nutburger TEABAGGERS.

They can shout, " TARDS RULE ! "

Republicans are simply the worst kind of person you have ever known. IDIOTS and SADISTS.

The RICH don't create jobs. They create SLAVERY. The RICH rob the people of needed resources. They steal food from starving children. They deny health care to the sick and infirm...and they do all this in the warped name of PROFITS.

Lincoln understood that LABOR was pre-eminent to, and superceded "capital". Capital would not exist without labor.

The REPUKES reverse this to impute that LABOR is dependent on Capital.

It is the stinking, worthless CAPITALIST that takes from civilization . TAKES and does not contribute. These are the THIEVES of creation. What the guillotine was invented for !

As for Christine O'Donnell....it is just more evidence that there is NO REPUBLICAN party. It has been taken over by the nutburger TEABAGGERS.

They can shout, " TARDS RULE ! "

Republicans are simply the worst kind of person you have ever known. IDIOTS and SADISTS.

Ever get a job from a poor person....'nough said......easiest argument I've ever won.....next!

The RICH don't create jobs. They create SLAVERY. The RICH rob the people of needed resources. They steal food from starving children. They deny health care to the sick and infirm...and they do all this in the warped name of PROFITS.

Lincoln understood that LABOR was pre-eminent to, and superceded "capital". Capital would not exist without labor.

The REPUKES reverse this to impute that LABOR is dependent on Capital.

It is the stinking, worthless CAPITALIST that takes from civilization . TAKES and does not contribute. These are the THIEVES of creation. What the guillotine was invented for !

As for Christine O'Donnell....it is just more evidence that there is NO REPUBLICAN party. It has been taken over by the nutburger TEABAGGERS.

They can shout, " TARDS RULE ! "

Republicans are simply the worst kind of person you have ever known. IDIOTS and SADISTS.

Have you ever wondered why the rest of the world call you a libturd???

The RICH don't create jobs. They create SLAVERY. The RICH rob the people of needed resources. They steal food from starving children. They deny health care to the sick and infirm...and they do all this in the warped name of PROFITS.

Lincoln understood that LABOR was pre-eminent to, and superceded "capital". Capital would not exist without labor.

The REPUKES reverse this to impute that LABOR is dependent on Capital.

It is the stinking, worthless CAPITALIST that takes from civilization . TAKES and does not contribute. These are the THIEVES of creation. What the guillotine was invented for !

As for Christine O'Donnell....it is just more evidence that there is NO REPUBLICAN party. It has been taken over by the nutburger TEABAGGERS.

They can shout, " TARDS RULE ! "

Republicans are simply the worst kind of person you have ever known. IDIOTS and SADISTS.

What this moron is really saying is ,' I'm a lazy D-bag and I want you to pay all my bills cause I'm to stupid to actually work for a living. Wahhhh, those people have more than me...wahhhhhhh that's not fair, wahhhhhh...I really hate them but I'm glad they are paying for me to sit around and play my x-box, wahhhhhhh Obama give me a binky... Wahhhhhhhh

I don't know why this report says O'Donnell threatens Castle's bid for re-election. As far as I know, Castle is now running for the Senate.

To me O'Donnell is too spacey to be taken seriously. Still, if it comes down to a choice between her and Coons, I'll take my chances with O'Donnell. I only wish Jan Ting was running again. Coons was a fraud, who helped cover up previous country corruption, and was a lousy administrator.

Isn't this amazing that all the democratic candidates can do are attack republicans and the tea party. If the legislation that Coon's party has passed is so great, why isn't he campaigning on that....Mr. Coons let us hear you say that you support the stimulus packages that rewarded unions and special interests and was loaded with pork; let us hear how you support the healthcare package that took 1/2 a billion dollars away from medicare and gave it to medicaid; let us hear you say that you support the bailout packages of the auto industry or wall street...but allow the unions and big business to write the legislation. Tell us how additional taxes will get us out of this recession. Tell us how spending more money will not add to the deficit. Tell us how guys like you feel our pain...that you first represent the constituents of Delaware and are not beholden to democratic special interest groups.

Ok, I am only going to explain this a few hundred more times. More jobs are created by the working class and the poor than by rich people. When you give a rich person a dime they build a strip mall that does not have customers, invest in shipping your jobs to china to make goods no-one will be able to buy, or stash the money in a foreign account to hide it from the IRS. You give a poor person or a working class person a dime and they spend it. They become a customer. They buy groceries, gas, clothes, and generally pay bills that put people to work. The money flows up hill to the rich also. So the difference is the republicans just want to cut out the middle man. They don't want the working class to ever see the money. They want it to go directly to the rich. I have large retail holdings. It is a simple fact that I hope the republicans can understand. If my retail operation has customers and cash flow (you know the stuff supplied by the customers or working class people) then expansion money is easy to get. That is part of the reason we are were we are at. During the W years we invested in building retial space and houseing that had no buyers. Because we cut taxes on the rich giving them more reasons to ship jobs overseas. Then we tried to replace those jobs that had a living wage with one at fast food retaurants and strip malls. Just look around you at the number of both that have popped up ove the last 10 years. Then look at the number of cars in the parking lots. Trickle up is the only thing that works. So get your head out of Rush's backside and try thinking for a change. Ok now you can call me all those clever little second grade names if you want.

IF YOUR THEORY IS THAT RICH PEOPLE CREATE JOBS AND WE NEED TO GIVE THEM MORE TAX CUTS AND CORPORATE LOOPHOLES AND CORPORATE WELFARE. OKAY YOU GUYS WERE IN CHARGE FROM 2000- 20008 WE DID IT YOUR WAY FOR 8 YEARS,

WHERE WERE THE JOBS!!!!!!!!!!!!! UNDER YOUR THEORY WE LOST 3 MILLION JOBS. YET HOW IN GODS NAME DID THE RICH GET RICHER. EXPLAIN THAT!!!!!!

What this moron is really saying is ,' I'm a lazy D-bag and I want you to pay all my bills cause I'm to stupid to actually work for a living. Wahhhh, those people have more than me...wahhhhhhh that's not fair, wahhhhhh...I really hate them but I'm glad they are paying for me to sit around and play my x-box, wahhhhhhh Obama give me a binky... Wahhhhhhhh

You fools have REALLY got to get some new lines. They are not only ridiculous but now after hearing the same endless babble they are really boring as well. Funny, seems like you have all the time in the world to rant about the obama admin. No job? On Social security? Unemployed? Which is it exactly?

Castle is part of the DC crowd that got us in this mess. Unemployment at 9.5%. It is time to try something different and O'Donnell is just that. I hope she wins and crushes the Obama backed tax and spend democrat. The democrat is a pawn of the labor unions. We need to repeal Obamacare (the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka PPACA) as we are only seeing higher premiums and less care. Obama would do nothing to take on the trial lawyers, gave them a pass, so they are still suiing the crap out of the doctors and we are paying for it. And illegal aliens get full medical benefits at your cost in higher premiums. O'Donnell will repeal it, Caste will not, vote for her.